Giganews

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company_name = Giganews, Inc.
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company_type = Private
foundation = 1998 in Austin, Texas
location = Austin, Texas
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num_employees =
industry = Telecommunications
products = Usenet
homepage = [http://www.giganews.com/ www.giganews.com]

Giganews, Inc is a popular Usenet/newsgroup service provider. Founded in 1998, Giganews service is available to individual users through a subscription model and as an outsourced service to internet service providers. Giganews currently offers service to over 10 million broadband users in 180 countries. Well-known ISPs that have outsourced Usenet access to Giganews include Comcast, RCN Corporation, [ [http://www.broadbandreports.com/faq/rcn RCN Forum FAQ - dslreports.com ] ] BT, WOW! (Wide Open West), and Kingston Communications.

According to [http://www.top1000.org/ www.top1000.org] , the combined weight of Giganews' servers makes Giganews the second most peered Usenet server currently online.

Starting in early 2006, the Mozilla Foundation’s newsgroup hierarchy was sponsored by Giganews.

Giganews traffic is peered at Equinix in Ashburn in Loudoun County, Virginia as well as AMS-IX and NL-IX in The Netherlands.

In the summer of 2005, Giganews provided open Usenet access to attendees of the What The Hack conference in The Netherlands. [http://wiki.whatthehack.org/index.php/What_The_Bust!] .

Article retention in binary groups was increased to 240 days October 2008. [http://www.giganews.com/news/article/240-days-retention-complete.html] .

References

External links

* [http://www.top1000.org top1000.org] - The Official Usenet TOP1000 Servers Page
* [http://www.broadbandweek.com/news/020225/020301_content_lines.htm http://www.broadbandweek.com/news/020225/020301_content_lines.htm] - "Comcast Lines up New Newsgroup Service"
* [http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3580236 http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3580236] - "Mozilla Severs Netscape News Legacy"
* [http://www.mozilla.org/community/developer-forums.html http://www.mozilla.org/community/developer-forums.html] - Details for accessing the Mozilla Development Forums